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THE ECLIPSE OF HUMANITY - LAWRENCE PERLMAN GEBU...

It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of
philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965)
contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main
work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism
(1946).When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unapacked in the light of these associations it is
clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation  that he
offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking
eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological
wake.Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein' 
'thrownness'  'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In
using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference' 
Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence
stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only
basis for a redemptive view of humanity.

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